3 Things to Know About the ASUS ROG STRIX Z690-A Motherboard

It uses the LGA 1700 socket This motherboard supports both 12th Gen Intel Core (Alder Lake) and 13th Gen (Raptor Lake) processors.

It was a bridge generation board It brought DDR5 and PCIe 5.0 to Intel’s mainstream desktop platform.

It keeps socket compatibility across two architectures You can upgrade from Alder Lake to Raptor Lake without changing the motherboard.